Critical care doctor Peter Weinstock shows how surgical teams are using a blend of Hollywood special effects and 3D printing to create amazingly lifelike reproductions of real patients — so they can practice risky surgeries ahead of time. Think: "Operate twice, cut once." Glimpse the future of surgery in this...
While the medical field attracts our best and brightest minds, doctors don't get higher grades when it comes to coping with stress. The Canadian Medical Education journal found that, "Medical students had higher perceived stress, negative coping, and lower resilience" than the general population. Tanya Keogh is just months away...
On a chilly and gray afternoon in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, 12 of the 28 students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine gathered to share with AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD, their fears of deportation and the loss...
The United States faces a shortage of 25,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) by 2025.1 This report is a guide for departments of family medicine for developing local strategies to increase the PCP workforce, framed around the 4 pillars for reform: pipeline, process of medical education, practice transformation, and payment reform.2...
A committee to introduce guidelines on medical education standards in Sri Lanka has been formed by the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA). The ten-member committee will comprise medical professors and specialist doctors while Dr. Sanjeewwa Tennakoon and Dr. Sarada Kannangara will co-chair, Dr. Haritha Aluthge was appointed, the Secretary. This...
Emergency medical technician students at McHenry County College found a man complaining of back pain on Saturday. While they were checking his blood pressure, he said he started feeling dizzy and eventually went into cardiac arrest, or so it appeared. The patient was not actually having a heart attack, as...
The Academy scored major kudos during the annual conference of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEhp) in late January, when the AAFP's Amy Mullins, M.D., and Gary Bird, Ph.D., accepted the Alliance's 2017 Innovative Format Award honoring the Academy's PerformanceNavigator CME product. This is the first...
There have been few changes to medical education since Abraham Flexner established the two years of sciences and two years of clinical cirriculum in 1910. With emphasis on value-based care, managing populations and chronic diseases, this shift in care must start with reimagining medical education for future physicians. A panel...
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is pushing ahead with its mission of being a patient-centered educational institution focusing on the community. The medical school, until this year known as The Commonwealth Medical College, operates campuses in various communities throughout northeastern and central Pennsylvania, including Williamsport. Dr. Margrit Shoemaker, assistant professor...
Mimic Technologies signed an agreement with HealthTrust to become the medical purchasing organizations new supplier of robotic surgery simulation training products and robotic surgery training consulting services. With studies showing nearly 50% of robotic surgery costs tied to technical skills of surgeons and their teams and robotic surgery accounting for...